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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:50:31 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] syscalls: Add a bit of documentation to
__SYSCALL_DEFINE
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:42:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The 64-bit argument for 32-bit case would end up having to have a few
> more of those architecture-specific oddities. So not just
> "argument1(ptregs)", but "argument2_32_64(ptregs)" or something that
> says "get me argument 2, when the first argument is 32-bit and I want
> a 64-bit one".
Yeah, but... You either get to give SYSCALL_DEFINE more than just
the number of arguments (SYSCALL_DEFINE_WDDW) or you need to go
for rather grotty macros to pick that information. That's pretty
much what I'd tried; it hadn't been fun at all...
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